St. Peter's duo Wesley Jenkins, Ryan Bacon to miss game at Rutgers with injuries

John Munson/The Star-LedgerSt. Peter's forward Ryan Bacon (right), will miss the Peacocks next game at Rutgers along with teammate Wesley Jenkins because of injury.

St. Peter's road trip to Rutgers on Thursday night just got a little bit more difficult.

That's because the Peacocks will be without their top two players — leading scorer Wesley Jenkins and leading rebounder Ryan Bacon — due to injury. According to a person with knowledge of the St. Peter's program, Jenkins re-injured his right knee — which had a partially-torn ACL suffered in the offseason — while Bacon sprained his ankle. Both injuries were suffered during St. Peter's 61-56 win at Binghamton on Tuesday night.

The person asked to remain anonymous because all injury information is supposed to be released by the team.

Jenkins, a senior from Newark, had missed the first four games of the season while recovering from the offseason injury sustained to his ACL. But since returning, he jumped back into the fray for the Peacocks, leading the team with 11.6 points a game as St. Peter's won its first two MAAC games of the season.

Bacon, a senior as well, was averaging 5.8 rebounds a game and leaves the Peacocks with a significant hole in their frontcourt. He was scheduled to undergo an MRI on his ankle on Wednesday, but the results were still undetermined.